Has Potential; Needs Less Hostile Management with Better Value System - Anonymous employee Cytek Employee Review

2.0
Dec 10, 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Technical teams highly qualified, great people to work with that value and take care of each other at the lower levels - Good benefits package and competitive salaries - Products greatly contributing to health and life sciences research

Cons

- Some management team members regularly irate and hostile, which makes many meetings a waste of time. - Often feels like a dictatorship; sense of team regularly demoralized. - People with non-Ivy league degrees are looked down upon. - Limited advancement capabilities. People that have been with the company at or near its beginning kept in the same roles and denied growth and advancement opportunities they were interested in. - Limited career development training and mentoring, hence not ideal for new college grads. - Started out small, cross-functional, and collaborative; changed to having invisible walls and functions are siloed. People at lower levels fear punishment from certain managers if try to be collaborative cross-functionally so these behaviors are ceasing to exist and communications worsen. - Lack of planning and coordination throughout company stemming from the top. - Employees not valued by upper levels and treated merely as numbers on a balance sheet. - No socially or environmentally responsible practices or policies in place.

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